Elsbeth Etty
author
Elsbeth Etty (born 1951) is a Dutch literary critic, biographer, journalist, and academic. She studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and was active in the student movement as a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). From 1973 to 1982, she worked for the communist newspaper De Waarheid before becoming a literary critic and columnist for NRC Handelsblad from 1989 until her retirement in 2017. She is well-known for her biographies of prominent Dutch writers, notably Henriëtte Roland Holst, for which she received several prestigious awards including the Gouden Uil and the Busken Huetprijs. She also served as a professor of literary criticism at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2004 to 2015.[2,3]
- literary criticism
- biography
- political journalism
Books
Works by Elsbeth Etty
- 1996 Henriette Roland Holst 1869-1952: Liefde is heel het leven niet PhD dissertation
- 2007 Maak jezelf maar klaar Novel/critical study on Harry Mulisch
- 2019 In de man zit nog een jongen: Willem Wilmink – de biografie
- 2024 Ik heb nog nooit gelogen Biography of Hugo Brandt Corstius
Awards
- 1996 Gouden Uil Literatuurprijs
- 1997 Busken Huetprijs
- 2007 Anne Vondelingprijs